Aug. 21, 2012
Lisa Malone
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
lisa.a.malone@nasa.gov
David Weaver
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
david.s.weaver@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-154
NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO ANNOUNCE COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRESS DURING MEDIA AVAILABILITY AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AUG. 23
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Media are invited to an interview availability
and facilities tour with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden at noon
EDT, Thursday, Aug. 23, at various locations in and around the
agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the media tour,
Bolden will detail recent progress related to NASA's commercial
spaceflight initiatives.
Media must be at Kennedy's press site by 11:15 a.m. for transportation
to the first location. Media will return to the press site by 3:30
p.m. For media wanting to cover a separate XCOR event at Kennedy's
Visitor Complex, transportation to the Bolden event will be provided
and depart the Visitor Complex at 11:30 a.m.
Bolden and media will tour two locations on Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station: SpaceX's facility at Space Launch Complex 40 and United
Launch Alliance's Space Launch Complex 41, where the Atlas V rocket
carrying NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) spacecraft is on
the launch pad. RBSP is scheduled to launch Friday morning.
Bolden and media then will go to Kennedy's Operations and Checkout
Building to see the latest progress on NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose
Crew Vehicle, which is being prepared for launch on the Exploration
Flight Test-1 in early 2014.
The tour ends at Kennedy, where The Boeing Company is preparing its
CST-100 spacecraft, which is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program
work. NASA is working with U.S. companies to eventually provide crew
transportation to and from low Earth orbit and the space station.
NASA RBSP media badges will be honored for this event. No new
credentials for international media will be issued. U.S. journalists
without media credentials must apply online by noon, Aug. 22, at:
https://media.ksc.nasa.gov
For more information about NASA's Orion, Space Launch System,
Commercial Crew, Ground Systems Development and Operations and
International Space Station programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration
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